La Rochelle win big but Bourgarit set for long layoff after serious injury

Ronan O’Gara estimated that La Rochelle will be without the international hooker’s services for ‘four-to-six months’.

La Rochelle's French hooker Pierre Bourgarit  Photo by XAVIER LEOTY/AFP via Getty Images)

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La Rochelle’s Pierre Bourgarit will miss France’s Autumn Nations Series and is very unlikely to be fit for the Six Nations after suffering a serious leg injury midway through his side’s 49-25 victory over Pau at rain-swept Stade Marcel Deflandre.